An educational poster, Kentucky Landscapes through Geologic Time, is a 40- x 36-inch poster with a section for each of the major periods of geologic time, stretching back nearly 500 million years to the Ordovician Period. The inspiration for this poster came from Chris Scotese of the University of Texas at Arlington. The website www.scotese.com illustrates the position of the [...]
The Speech Education Alliance of Kentucky (SPEAK) conference will be Sept. 30 at the University of Kentucky. Information and registration is available online at www.kyspeak.org. This conference is a joint educational professional development day sponsored by the four competitive speaking groups in Kentucky – the National Forensic League; the Kentucky High School Speech League; the Kentucky Educational Speech and Drama [...]
The Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University has planned a travel/study program to Italy for 8th-grade and high school honors students as well as interested adults, set for Sept. 30 through Oct. 9. This program provides participants with a carefully structured experience in Florence, Rome and selected points of interest. Thirty qualified participants will be accompanied by the [...]
The Kentucky Society for Technology in Education is seeking presenters for its annual conference. More than 2,000 information technology leaders, technicians, network specialists, tech resource/integration specialists, classroom teachers, administrators/district leaders, library media specialists, assistive technology specialists, staff developers, instructional technology teachers and counselors are expected to attend. Approved presenters attend the conference for free. This year’s conference theme is “Connect, [...]
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) awarded Kentucky two education awards earlier this month. One was the inaugural John I. Wilson Leadership for Learning Award for the state’s Content Leadership Networks and Continuous Instructional Improvement Technology System (CIITS). The award honors John Wilson, National Education Association executive director, and founding member of P21 who is retiring this year. The [...]
A new animation produced by NASA Goddard provides a clear explanation of how a lunar eclipse occurs and has more than a dozen high-resolution versions to choose from, including 3D. Also, on the same page is a link for an animation list including topics like agriculture, atmosphere, biosphere, climate indicators, hydrosphere, land surface, oceans, sun-earth interactions and more. For more [...]
Secretary of State Elaine Walker has announced three public school winners for the 2011 annual election slogan and essay contest managed by her office with support from the Kentucky Education Association Retired and the University of Kentucky Scripps Howard First Amendment Center, a division of the School of Journalism and Telecommunications. The contest was created by the Kentucky General Assembly [...]
The new dates for the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts Conference are Feb.17- 18, 2012 at Embassy Suites in Lexington. Featured speakers are Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday; Kentucky’s Poet Laureate, Maureen Morehead; award-winning Kentucky novelist Rick Robinson; and noted author Sara Kajder. Visit www.kcte.org for updates. Proposals to present are now being accepted at http://conference.kcte.org/call.html. For more [...]
The September 11: Teaching Contemporary History online conference will be Aug. 3-4. This conference is free to all teachers and school administrators. Educators will be able to view the online conference live and interact with panelists and other teachers who are online. Each session of the conference will last 50-75 minutes. All sessions will be recorded and posted for teachers [...]
High school mathematics teachers are invited to attend the “Building SPEED: The Mathematics of NASCAR” workshop July 28 at Henry Clay High School. Door prizes will be given away such as teaching supplies, books and iPads. The workshop will focus on higher-level mathematics courses such as Algebra II, Pre-Calculus and the new Transition to College Mathematics course. For more information, [...]